Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.
Think about where this is leading. One possibility, anticipated this morning by financial markets, is a damaging trade war. Another is an American military occupation of Greenland. Try to imagine it: The U.S. Marines arrive in Nuuk, the island’s capital. Perhaps they kill some Danes; perhaps some American soldiers die too. And then what? If the invaders were Russians, they would arrest all of the politicians, put gangsters in charge, shoot people on the street for speaking Danish, change school curricula, and carry out a fake referendum to rubber-stamp the conquest. Is that the American plan too? If not, then what is it? This would not be the occupation of Iraq, which was difficult enough. U.S. troops would need to force Greenlanders, citizens of a treaty ally, to become American against their will.
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Should be?
Seriously?
We’re way past the Rubicon. The army is breaking through the city gates.
last straw
Really? The last straw happened in the beginning of his previous administration
Entire bales of hay followed, I’m buried under straws and I can barely breathe.
I think “last straw” is very relative.at best.
last straw
Really?
No. Because now we’re talking about Caesar crossing the Rubicon. Even the ancient Romans would have seen this as a logical progression of the conversation.
The US is awesomely amazing at invading other countries. This is a simple fact sustained by history
Having said that
It’s also a simple fact, sustained by history, that America suckw beyond badly at occupying conquered territories. Iraq, anyone? Afghanistan anyone?
And those had relatively easy climates. Greenland is a fucking horror show with which the US has little experience
Any occupation of Greenland by the US WILL fail eventually, the question is just how many US soldiers will have to die before it’s decided that maybe just maybe this wasn’t a good idea.
The only way it would could possibly work is a complete genocide, kill or forcibly remove ALL citizens. This of course would be a humanitarian catastrophe with very few examples in history, but I wouldn’t put it past the cheeto.
This all goes to ignore people living in the US. If you invade Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Greenland… Do you really think that none of its citizens that currently live in the US might get ideas? Then what? You’re going to round those all up too?
Once the US invaded one of its allies, the current administration will be over, it’s just a matter of time before it will bleed to death
To paraphrase a cool movie: There is no winning move, except not to play
To paraphrase a cool movie: There is no winning move, except not to play
It depends what you count as winning. There are some who might consider “give yourself a country for your 80th birthday” the ultimate win, and not give much of a shit beyond that. As an example.
Note that the article is appealing to the Republicans to stop Trump. Tells you all you need to know about the efficacy of the Democrats in opposition.
What can democrats do? Republicans have control of every single part of government right now?
You do not know? Doing things that matter would be politically unfavorable.
The blue states have the power to hit back. Look at documents on the Nullification Crisis for additional context.
Thank you for this. TIL.
Just how jealous can he be of Obama? Run for president because a joke at the correspondence dinner and willing to start WWIII because Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. FFS
I sometimes wonder where we’d be today if Obama hadn’t made that joke or been given the Nobel Prize. That abominable thing might never have entered politics, might never even have entered the conscious awareness of most people of the world.
the last straw should have been “grab them by the pussy”
but here we are, getting murdered in the street by nazi fascist pigfuck thugs
The last straw should have been mocking a disabled reporter. That was a decade ago.
Which is probably nowhere close to the end. We’re probably going to have to go through a civil war, experience a nuclear catastrophe, something to cow the cultists back.
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An excerpt from Hitler’s Stalingrad Speech for reference:
Before we attacked Warsaw, I called for surrender five times, I was always refused. I asked that at least the women and children be sent out. Not even the officer bearing the flag of truce was received. Everything was refused, and only then did I decide to do what is permitted by every law of war.
The road is currently littered with things that should have been the last straw
And that’s just from today. Here’s the haul since new years
Yeah, throw it on the pile.
Europe for so long as just abdicated action to the US that the are incapable of acting in self interest.
The USA is planning on Europe doing something useless and symbolic like they do every-time the USA doesn’t step in.
They should have stood up to Putin to show they won’t accept war in Europe. They didn’t even stop buying fuel from Russia while Russia started an imperial land war with Europeans. Given how weak the reaction was to Putin, do you think US companies are even worried about a trade disruption?
Is it because this time it’s ‘REAL’ Europeans and not dirty poor Ukrainians? The USA is betting that Europe will complain, boycott, and eventually do business again once the occupation is complete.
The USA is threatening to invade Europe. Why would the US government think Europe would stand up to them? Why would the US congress think any real problem will come from this?
[…] and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.
Soooo… Trump can present all those documents when the settlers “bought” land from the native Americans? Or was it only, that some boats landed there hundreds of years ago?
None of the letter even matters to a fascist, it’s all just words to distract and delay.
Might makes right is the only thing they understand.
Okay, so I can’t really get angry over a demented old man yelling at the clouds, it’s what they do…
But exactly what is happening in USA since there’s nobody telling him to shut the fuck up? Somebody wrote this on a piece of paper for him and put it in an envelope and send it through as diplomatic post between two nations. And NOBODY at any point whatsoever had the courage to tell him what is obvious to everyone else on the planet: That these are the dumbest words every written on a piece of paper in the entire history of mankind. Really?
What are they so afraid of?
NOBODY at any point whatsoever had the courage to tell him what is obvious to everyone else on the planet
You described it well. It’s what happens to tyrants, and invariably brings their downfall. It’s a process: they replace more and more annoying critical voices with yesmen and -women. It strengthens their power, until literally nobody dares to criticize them anymore. And suddenly there’s no way to correct course back to normal, and it all turns into a farce.
We have other living examples for that, historical examples, even fairytales - and measures against it. Separation of powers, no more than two consecutive terms, and ultimately the democratic process itself - if those haven’t been hollowed out for decades.
Part of me wants to believe its because they enjoy letting him make a dook of himself but I know better.
Edit: somehow, ‘fool’ got autocorrected to ‘dook’.
I have decided I like dook better.
A fool of a dook.
dookie
They are afraid their corporate donors will get mad. Who benefits from this chaos? Corporations. Corporations who are handed the new contracts for resource extraction.
Just about our entire government is captured by these corporate interests. Foreign policy to enrich these powers has always been uniparty in this country try as we might to lie and obfuscate that. No one wants to speak out against Trump and lose out on the gravy train they have coming in with their kickbacks from donors.
Maybe the Epstein files don’t just have pedobloat in them. SCROTUS/GOP/Billionaires, etc…they are all covering for each other’s kompromat.
Anybody who reads that and doesn’t immediately conclude he’s absolutely fucked in the head and a threat to… everyone needs to get on the next SpaceX test rocket.
The problem is even if haalf of trump voters finally agreed. And united left and right all decided to message our reps to stop this it either goes discarded or Vance is next in line and he still pursues it
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The Atlantic - a fundamental part of The Last Straw consortium within the MSM, providing the vital straws that keep the hope alive, that the exploitation is about to stop increasing.
Dementia speaks folks… it’s the late night sundowning and the posting in the wee hours when he should and would be sleeping if his brain wasn’t turning to plaque that’s the give away. Man is falling into the same disease that his father went down with and has played the ‘batshit’ game for so long it’s hiding what would be obvious in a normal, decent person.
His dad, his granddad, and his sister all died suffering terrible dementia.
So will he. And we’ll be there. Wheeee.
There are no more straws. Anyone who supports Trump at this point has already locked in and there isn’t anything him or his admin can do to change their minds.
It’s not about who supports him. It’s about the people and organizations that have the power to do something about it sitting on their hands.
